PPA to provide morale boost to AAP
Itanagar: With Aam Aadmi Party putting up a good show in the Delhi Assembly elections, the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) on Tuesday said that the performance of AAP will provide morale boost to it. PPA’s chief ministerial candidate Laeta Umbrey in a statement said, though the AAP failed to garner enough votes to form a government of its own, its success would “give immense support to the renewed PPA in its crusade against corrupt practices of the national parties.” “That established political parties like the Congress and the BJP could not stop the AAP is a clear indication that the common people are tired of the politics and governance offered by these parties,” Umbrey, MLA from Roing Assembly constituency, said. Terming the AAP’s performance as ‘nothing less than a revolution’, Umbrey said that the political culture in Arunachal is to join hands with established political parties, but the PPA, much in the AAP’s mould, seeks to renew its relation with the people’s aspirations by offering the promise of a clean and corruption-free government while keeping the regional ethos of the state intact. PTI
Chinese grenade found in Assam
Guwahati: A grenade made in China and an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) has been found near here, police said Tuesday. The explosives were recovered a day after intelligence inputs that the faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) opposed to peace talks might try to carry out subversive activities in Assam’s major city Guwahati. The police have also identified the two activists of ULFA’s anti-talks faction, who were involved in transporting the IED, police said. “We have received intelligence inputs that two cadres of the outfit had been trying to enter the city with explosives to carry out subversive activities. We have worked on the information and recovered an IED and a Chinese grenade from Kahikuchi area near city last night,” said Senior Superintendent of Police (City) A.P. Tiwari. “The recovered IED is a sophisticated one attached with timer device and it is of high intensity. Ajay Deka and Karna Rabha brought the IED and they were trying to enter the city,” said Tiwary. The police said that both of them had taken shelter in a labour camp in Kahikuchi area. “We have raided the camp after receiving specific information last night and the IED and the grenade were recovered. The two cadres, however, managed to escape,” he said, adding that two people, who had given shelter to the cadres, have also been detained by the police. (IANS)
Electoral roll documents damaged
Itanagar: Unknown miscreants have burnt down several important documents related to electoral roll revision of Kurung Kumey district in Arunachal Pradesh. A group of miscreants intercepted the vehicle carrying the documents from Koloriang to Itanagar at Hawa camp near Kimin and forcefully burnt the documents, official sources informed here on Tuesday. A few police personnel, who accompanied the vehicle, were outnumbered by the miscreants, sources said. An FIR has been lodged at Kimin police station and the matter is under investigation, sources added. (PTI)
70 pc of non-planned budgetary allocation for higher education:Gogoi
Morigaon: The Assam government will sanction 70 per cent of its non-planned budgetary allocation for all round development of provincialised colleges in the state. The 70 per cent amount was from the government’s non-planned budget allocation for higher education, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said after launching the year-long celebration of Morigaon College here. He said earlier only 30 per cent of the allocation for higher education was earmarked for all senior (degree) colleges in the state. Several vocational curricula such as disaster management, forest and environment development and bio-energy products management would be introduced in the provincialised (government-aided) colleges of the state so that educated youths get self-employment. (PTI)
Nagaland NCC to celebrate 50 yeas of statehood from Wednesday
Kohima: In view of the festive season and 50 years of statehood, Kohima Group National cadet corps (NCC) would be organizing a combined annual training Camp on December 11 to 23 at Indira Gandhi Stadium at Kohima. According to Nagaland NCC sources said that No. 1 Nagaland (Girls), Battalion, NCC under the jurisdiction of Kohima Group HQ, National cadet corps (NCC), is organizing this camp. This camp will also have cadets from 24 Nagaland (Independent), Company, NCC, Kohima; 25 Nagaland (Independent), Company, NCC, Mokokchung; and No 1 Nagaland (Air), Squadron, NCC, Dimapur. A total of 500 to 600 cadets from schools and colleges from all the eleven districts are expected to participate. (UNI)